22nd March 2024 Newsletter by invictusbukittimah

WeeklyNewsletter

AcademicYear23/24 Term2 22ndMarch2024

WelcomefromthePrincipal

At the time of publication, I am currently on day 2 of my FOBISIAHeads conference in Vietnam. It is always a pleasure to talk with other international school leaders about the great learning and creativity which is on daily display at BukitTimah.There is a lively energy as students start seeing their art work displayed in preparation for Arts Connect next week at which I am looking forward to seeing you all in the various drop ins. With term 3 ECAsign ups underway this week, the fervour for extra opportunities to learn and explore new activities is evident and I am grateful to the teachers for committing to providing another range this term, it certainly demonstrates their passion for education! It is hard to believe that we are nearly at the end of term 2 and before we know it, the end of the academic year will be upon us. In between this of course is an exciting term 3 ahead which will be as busy and learning enriched as ever!

I wish you all a lovely weekend.

Nicholas Belcher

VisionandMission

InvictusInternationalSchoolBukitTimah

Mrs Burke

Assistant Head - Pastoral Care

Ms Shaw

Key Stage 1 Lead

Head of PE & Sport

Mr Zulhilmi

Mr Belcher Principal

Mrs Lu

Key Stage 2 Lead

Art Lead

Mr Elisara

Mr Morse

Deputy Head -Academics

Dr King

Key Stage 3 Lead & Head of Science

Head of Music

Ms Ngooi

InvictusInternationalSchoolBukitTimah

Ms Shaw

Year 1.1Teacher

Ms Lu

Year 3.1 Form & Maths Lead

Ms Ferraz

Year 5.1 Form & Maths/HumanitiesTeacher

Ms Liu Year 1.2Teacher

Ms Mishra Year 3.2 Form & EnglishTeacher

Ms Jollyn Lin ChineseTeacher

Ms Stewart

Year 7.1 Form & EnglishTeacher

Ms Metcalfe

Year 2.1Teacher

Ms Jing Year 4.1 Form & Chinese teacher

Mr Elisara

Year 5.2 Form & Art Lead

Mrs Lee

Year 6.1 Form & Humanities/GPTeacher

Mr Burke Year 8 Form & Maths Lead

Ms Joachim Year 2.2Teacher

MsYu Year 4.2 Form & ChineseTeacher

Ms Ngooi

Year 6.2 Form & Head of Music

Ms Wang ChineseTeacher

InvictusInternationalSchoolBukitTimah

TeachingAssistant and Learning Support team

Ms Sulaiman Ms Cai (Temp) MsYusop Ms Kalaihselvan Ms Hu Ms Makose Ms Kamarudin

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OpeningHours: Mon-Sat10.30amto7.15pm Sun10.30amto6.15pm

Academic:ImportantNotices

- The booking portal for our subject PTCs will now open at our next parental communication window which is this Tuesday 26th owing to a School Cloud issue with PTC bookings.There will still be plenty of windows and time to book our subject-teachers before our online and face-to-face meetings open for the first fortnight ofTerm 3.

- Parents of invited pupils will be asked to confirm Enrichment attendance forTerm 3 at the same time.

- As usual, there is no Enrichment, ECAs, or homework in the final week of term.

EAL

Congratulations to Miss Kay, our EALlead who’s completed her PGCE with EAL! If you’re interested in our developing approach to EAL, I’ve asked Miss Kay to explain it further here: “Our learning pathway offers a tailored program to support our students with English as anAdditional Language and considers their cultural background, current English proficiency, and educational goals. We utilize resources likeThe Learning Village, to accommodate learners of all language backgrounds and levels. Personalized orientation interviews help build trust and familiarity, especially for newcomers experiencing culture shock. Small-group settings encourage confidence and risk-taking in language learning, fostering a sense of safety and belonging. The curriculum covers four major language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing, with a focus on functional language and vocabulary. Initial assessments align learners with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), guiding instruction from survival language to academic language. EALsupport continues until students can access the curriculum independently, based on ongoing assessment and feedback.”

Miss Kay Learning SupportAssistant

KeepingInTouchwithYourChild’sLearning

The school strives to keep parents informed about their child’s learning whilst balancing our teacher’s priorities.Areminder that tutors and subject-teachers are always available, and aim to respond to parent emails within 48-hours, however the following are two ways you can immediately keep up-to-date with your child’s learning.

WeeklySubjectcontent

Reminding children of learning, and pre-teaching key terms or ideas, is shown to be beneficial, so we’ve put together a summary of upcoming content for each class here: Parent-Shared

Term2BCurriculumLetter

Permanently collated here: Parent-Shared.T2B Curriculum Letters.

PastoralNews

NextThursday is Invictus’first ever Pizza and Play party which is awarded to the house with the most house points. This party is to celebrate the hard work, excellent behaviour and successes of the best house this term. Results will be announced on Thursday 28th March.

Let the best house win!

Mrs Burke Assistant Head - Pastoral Care

HouseUpdates

Civets

452

Otters 502

With the new house games competitions happening at break and lunchtime, the house points are at their highest yet. Well-done Otters smashing the 500 mark on the house points this week!!!

Pangolins 422 Hornbills 455

ArtandDesigninPrimary

Theyear3pupilshavecompletedtheir‘Mihimihipattern’ basedonNZMaorikorudesigns.Theirpatternsrepresent theirfamily,placespupilshavetravelledandlived,favourite lakesandrivers,mountainsandfamily.Wealsobasedour ‘recycledPaikeaart’oncultureandthepopularNew Zealandmovie,theWhaleRider.Pupilsworkedtogetherto usedfoil,buttons,andpaintforthewholeyear collaboration-welldoneyear3!

Students in key stage 2 received their term 1 Superstar CREST awards this week! They must complete 8 experiments and we must show evidence of their learning to get the awards that are given by the British ScienceAssociation. Well done to all the students who worked hard all term to complete the tasks. Term 2

CRESTclubbers, Dr King will send off for yours as soon as term 2 is complete! This time, she will also apply for some Discovery awards for students from key stage 3, who have been working towards a the more advanced award throughout term 2!

Thank you to all of our students who participated in our home competitions for STEAM week! All entries should be on display in school by now! Great job IBT!

ScienceNews

Last Friday, we welcomed Matthew King from the Advanced Remanufacturing andTechnology Centre, a part ofA*Star, into Key Stage 3 last week to talk to our students about careers in engineering and the exciting variety of work happening just in the centre where he works. Matthew literally blew a few minds when talking about the tiny tolerances they work to and fielded many excellent questions from the students, even sending a more detailed answer to one question as he travelled back to work afterwards!Thank you for your engaging visit.

https://www.a-star.edu.sg/artc

Science

Our primary classes got a little hands on this week with some hair raising static experiments. We discovered that some hair types make more powerful static chargers than others! We also tested the different mediums that sound travels through to see which worked best and theorised why this is the case!

Secondary science has been investigating renewable energy and learning more about bioplastics!

The wind turbine challenge was a closely fought battle to transfer the highest amount of energy from the hairdryer through to our ammeter. Well done to Elyas for just snatching the win from Varonnika in the final moments of our competition!

Primary

Secondary

ChineseLanguageinPrimary

Y2 SCL students are familiarizing themselves with school facilities. After completing speaking tasks, they create houses independently by cutting out windows and doors, pasting them onto house outlines, coloring, and drawing pictures of familiar individuals.

Y3 SCL students are learning how to express "我去..." (I go to...) followed by an activity or location in Mandarin. FCL students, on the other hand, are writing characters such as 痛、疼、痒、病.

Y5 FCL students are focusing on past tense verb vocabulary, such as 吃了 (ate), 喝了 (drank), 做了 (did/made), and 说了 (said).They are having a competition of words recognition.They’re actively engaged in a word recognition competition, leveraging these newly linguistic skills.

Y6 FCL students are exploring the concept of money and currency in different countries. They're practicing asking questions like "xx多少钱？" to develop conversational skills.

ChineseLanguageinSecondary

This week, our Y7-Y8 pupils are engaged in a variety of activities centered around Chinese language study. Y7 SCL students are learning about daily items such as our transportation card, wallet, coins and banknotes. They are also identify different types of reading materials and text. While Y8 SCL students learning about Tang Poems. They are practicing the reading skills and striving to comprehend the meaning and artistic conception of poem as well as exploring background of the author and other relevant contextual information. This aims to deepen their understanding of classical literature.

MusicinPrimary

With theArt and Music Festival approaching the students continued working hard this week to perfect their singing, dancing, acting and music playing. It is a joy seeing all the students trying their best to put forward the best performance on stage and feeling proud of themselves. Well done students!

MusicinSecondary

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The teachers has been working hard coming into school early to work on their Masterpiece for Charity! Lookout for our artwork on sale at the Charity Bazaar!

ArtandMusicFestival2024

As part of this year’sArt and Music Community Project, there will be a charity bazaar after every year group’sArt and Music Festival Parents Pop in.The proceeds from the sales will go to MINDS. Supporting the event, ourYear 6 Humanities students will be having their Market Day sales with the profits going to their selected charities which they will present at their booth during the Charity Bazaar. If you are not attending the Parents Pop-in, kindly provide your child with some money for the Charity Bazaar. We suggest no more than SGD10 per child.

Ms. Sara

PhysicalEducationinPrimary

Dive into our exciting week of swimming! Our primary students delved deeper into the art of breaststroke, catering to each individual's abilities. Some mastered the art of staying afloat on their backs, while others kicked off their journey by practicing backward kicks. Every

PhysicalEducationinSecondary

Afantastic week of progress in PE! Our Year 7 and 8 students honed their throwing and batting skills in Cricket, pushing their accuracy to new heights. Not only did they increase the distance between the Bowler and the Stump, but they also showcased their dedication and improvement. Keep shining, team!

PhysicalEducation

Sport in the community

Workout for Spartan Race in SG 22nd of June!

Spartan Race is coming back with a new and improved course for kids!Afew of the year

5-8 students are going to be signing up and wanted to see if there is more interest.

ACE Certified StrengthTrainer, Priscilla Segwick @mana.within is going to run weekly sessions (costTBD) onTuesdays afterschool 3:45-4:45 after holidayApril 16th-June 18. (10 sessions)

Please email robin.ferraz@invictus.edu.sg for interest/questions.

Singapore Spartan Race Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvMZDKj cpno

KeyStage1-YearsOneandTwo

Key Stage One have been practising their teamwork skills during some lunchtime House competitions.The students have shown so many of our school values during these times; trying new games, encouraging one another, persisting when things are not going to plan, communicating positively with team members and so much more! We would also like to thank ourYear 5 and Year 6 leaders, who have been great role models supporting the KS1 students.

KeyStage2-YearsThree,Four,FiveandSix

This Term 2b, Year 3 and 4s have been exploring poetry writing in English. The Year 3s have been learning about whether plastic is beneficial or harmful to them and the environment, and have written a poem on their understanding of it. The Year 4s have been learning about rivers of the world and its different features, and have crafted a poem that reflects their perception of the different personalities/ identities that a river can have. Scan the QR codes below to read some of the students’creative work! Well done to them!

(Poems missing are either due to your child being absent or not having finished their work in a timely manner)

4.2 Poems 4.1 Poems 3.2 Poems 3.1 Poems

KeyStage3-YearsSevenandEight

Key stage 3 got together for a series of paper STEAM challenges this week! The challenges included making the longest paper chain with a single sheet ofA4 and climbing through an index card! Winners earned points for their houses and it was great to see the whole key stage working together towards a common goal! Some were more successful than others, but hey we had a good time trying!

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Teacher and StaffAppreciation Day

On Monday, we hadAppreciation Day for our lovely teachers and staff in Invictus BukitTimah. It has been challenging year for all of you and we would like to let you know that you are very much appreciated.

Thank you for caring, thank you for being always there, thank you for all you do!

FromAll Parents in Invictus BukitTimah

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Save the date! Movie afternoon is coming back for second time to mark the new school term right before the kids immerse themselves in term 3 after school activities. This time, they get to choose which movie they want to watch!

We kindly seek your help to fill in this Google Form until 16th ofApril with your children movie choice. Most voted movie for every KS will be screened!

For any requests, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us on

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